Merry Christmas - from Raiatea

This is a good news, bad news posting. We received this Christmas greeting from CNI, the yard in Raitea where we left New Morning. As you may recall, we had to leave her in the water until they fixed their trailer and can pull her out, hopefully early next month. It's a lovely greeting, and if you look closely at the picture, you'll see that beyond promoting beer for Christmas, there is New Morning in the background, still floating!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Toute l’équipe du Chantier Naval vous souhaite de passer de très bonnes fêtes de fin d’année!!

Je vous rappelle que nous sommes fermés du 22 Décembre au 4 Janvier inclus.


All the CNI teem wish you “ Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!”

I remember you that we are closed from the 22 December until the 4 January.


CNI Teem
Vive la HINANO !!!

More photos and articles

Now that everything is working again I'm trying to clear the backlog. I've just uploaded the photos from Moorea. Soon I hope to get to the photos from Bora Bora, Tahaa and the other Iles sous le vent.

I also posted Fay's most recent article in Sail Magazine. It was published last year, but while cruising we never got around to posting it. See what she writes about Sun, Heat and Humidity also available on the In The News page.

And last but not least is an excerpt from Chuck Paine's career retrospective My Yacht Designs where he describes New Morning as "our very best Performance Cruiser design". Quite a compliment from a designer with such a long career.

Software fixed - Tahiti photos

After a month of trying to reach the developer of the plug-in I use for the photo pages through the support pages on his site I was growing quite frustrated. I scanned some forums and was able to find a direct email address for him. Then as soon as I contacted him he responded and fixed the problems! So last night I was able to upload the photos from Tahiti and this weekend I'm hoping to add more photos from Moorea and the Iles sous le vent.

But the weather is so nice this weekend, crystal clear after some big winds earlier this week, a bit crisp, but still beautiful, I may get distracted...

Broken web site software

I've been hoping that I could post our pictures from French Polynesia, but the software that I use to create the web site has stumbled badly and is currently not operational. If I attempt to add new photographs I'll lose what is already posted. The software developer seems to have disappeared so no I'm seeking another solution. Until then, I hope you're enjoying the holidays!